With the close of the beta, we want to hear your #MercenaryTales! Ours goes a little something like this — My mother wanted me to be a butcher.My father wanted me to be a merchant. Now I feel like I'm both. Just...not in quite the way they intended...

Everyone has their favorite gameplay style, right? I flip-flop between wanting to tank everything and needing the excitement of living life like a glass cannon. Since Grand Kingdom lets you put together squads of up to four units from various classes, you can be super flexible with how you want to live your mercenary life. So what say you, captain, how about we figure out which mercenaries would fit right in with your squad?

Every RPG has a whole host of systems running behind the scenes, or right up front where you get to see them in action, and Grand Kingdom is no different. But in every game, it's also true that certain systems matter more than others - at least when you're first starting out. As you become a pro, you'll start to care about every little thing, and min-maxing your team, but for now, here's our picks for the three systems you should really care about in Grand Kingdom.

Hey, dood! First of all, I'll issue my mea culpa here for getting this news on our blog so late; it's been a crazy last couple of days driving to and from SF, and in general basically running around like a Prinny with his wings cut off. But you're here for news, so without further ado, I give you...news!

YESSSS! I feel like I've been holding my breath for the past few months while we've been working out the details on this one, but we can finally let the world know - we're going to be publishing Grand Kingdom! We don't have a release day for it yet, but it will be available this year.

For those of you who just raised an eyebrow and said, "What's Grand Kingdom?" - read on!

Today we have a guest blog for you! Our long-time editor, Steve, overheard an interesting discussion between Killia and The Other Killia earlier last week after they saw Game Informer's article about Disgaea 5 being a contender for the top 50 games of the year. Let's see what he says he heard...

Metallia is back again in The Witch and the Hundred Knight: Revival Edition on the PlayStation®4, but this time, she is now a playable character! The Hundred Knight is certainly well suited for the challenges outside the swamp, but the powers of Metallia cannot be matched.